Seeing Through

I see through the pages

And I’ve waited for ages

To feel this vibration

Which sets my heart aflame

The gentleness

In your fingertips

Radiates respect

And deference

To the time long past

In which my story was born

I see through the pages

And I’ve waited for ages

To witness

A soul

Which shines like yours

Through your eyes

I see the warmth

Of the sunrise

And the ephemerality

Of each day

As the sun

Then sets

And you pull me close

In the darkness

And whisper into the night

I see through the pages

And I’ve waited for ages

As the beauty that is my story

Formed on your lips

Destroys me

As I beg you to love me

The way that I love you

If only I could rearrange

These phrases

The only words

I will ever know

How to speak

In such a way

That the idea of me

Could hold the reality of you

In a lover’s embrace

I see through the pages

And I’ve waited for ages

Can you feel

How I desire you?

How I hoard your presence

Because I can’t get enough

And I know

My story is ending

And I fear

You won’t love me

The way that I love you

And you’ll close my book

When it ends

And never

Open it

Again

I see through the pages

And I’ve waited for ages

Only to learn

The bittersweet taste

Of unrequited love

You are reading the last page

Of my story

And tears

Are in your eyes

And for one moment

I can pretend

You feel for me

What I know is real

As you press my book

To your chest

And sigh

Goodbye, my love

Goodbye